Often these laws are framed as protecting us

You can protect yourselves together in freedom, you don't need eschew yourselves to them, so stop doing that.

All over the globe cyber laws are being proposed and passed that attack secure communications and digital privacy. their design [...] used to attack human rights defenders and control critical voices.

That is the sole purpose of these "laws"... maintaining and growing their power, oppression, control, continued enslavement against freedom, over all the worlds non-elites peoples... conned you into it via FUD propaganda lies and "free" shit which is never free. When all they have to do is open their mouths spew FUD and scribble some lines on paper to steal your freedom, then your freedom is free for them to take, so they are doing it more and more. Lately with Corona, and Oh Canada... Raise their costs from zero to infinity, fight back!